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home staging tips: 5 Easy Home Staging Tips to Sell Your Home - 05/02/11 10:58 AM
The endless chatter from TV Interior Decorating opinions has made Home Staging sometimes seem like a quagmire of misinforms and product placement ads. The process of Home Staging doesn't have to reach deep into your pockets, nor so time consuming it's out of your reach if you seek the expertise of a professional Home Stager. A well oiled pro will streamline not only your budget, but also save you your most important resource - time. Here are some simple tips on prepping your home for sale can make the process much easier.
•1. Remove YOU From the Home Staging Process: The … (11 comments)
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home staging tips: UPDATED! Chicago Stager on TV - Super Staging Tips on CLTV - Watch Video - 05/13/09 02:05 PM
Make sure to tune-in to Chicago Tribune's CLTV this weekend, May 16 & 17th - Homes Plus show!
Professional Home Stager & Interior Stylist Julea Joseph will be featured with a recent Staging she did for a Homewood couple on a bare-bones budget.
See how with just a few gallons of paint, focused and strategic staging, and a bit of elbow grease - Any home can take center stage!
Before...
WATCH SEGMENT: http://weblogs.cltv.com/business/realestate/homesplus/2009/05/staging_story_before_after.html
If you don't want to empty your purse, but want to make sure your home is prepped, polished and perfectly package for today's very competitive market - Here … (8 comments)
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home staging tips: Bare Bones Staging Budget? The Case of Two Teachers, Two Mortgages and a Baby - 04/16/09 03:35 PM
Ah-Hah! You thought that hiring a professional Stager would cost you big bucks and they were exclusively for fancy, expensive homes. Think again. With the wise advice of a pro, a homeowner can make smart, economical updates and enhancements to their home to get it prepped and ready for the market.
Case Example: Two Teachers, Two Mortgages and a Baby...
With a baby, two mortgages, and salaries as a music teacher and swimming coach - This young couple was working on a super tight budget to make their for-sale home shine! With the help of a stager, they made great choices … (15 comments)
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home staging tips: The Truth about Home Staging - 07/23/08 01:29 PM
WOW! Home Staging is all the buzz right now, TV shows, newspaper features and a zillion books to give you the scoop about how is was created , who created it, and how the common man can execute it. Staging is nothing new. Ask any 20 year veteran Realtor, and they'll tell you they've been doing it forever.
Truth be told, the history of home staging is inconsequential, but the history of how we look at our homes and more importantly - ourselves is monumental.
Home Staging is now realized as a technique in selling a … (25 comments)
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home staging tips: Tales of an Interior Stylist - Pushing all the Right Buttons when Staging a Living Room - 06/29/08 05:30 PM
I'm your personal Home Elevator Operator, educated on every level of all your decorative needs no matter which floor you may require. Whether you wish the 1st floor - "Moving In," or top floor -"Moving Out," I'm there to help push all the right buttons (I also have the talent to stop in between floors, but that's another tale...)If requiring a trip to the top floor "Moving Out -" I've got some helpful tips on which buttons to push to get that Living Room in top shelf condition.
The Home's 1st Impression - One of the two rooms that flag … (12 comments)
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home staging tips: Keeping up with the Joneses - Topping off the Counter Top - 04/15/08 08:28 AM
Whether at a Staging Evaluation or teaching a Home Stage Workshop/Seminar, one of the most common questions I get is - "WHAT ARE THE TRENDS IN COUNTER TOPS?" My reply is always the same - if I'm wearing my Stager's hat I'll tell you "GRANITE-GRANITE-GRANITE," but when wearing my decorator hat I'll tell you "...We're so over GRANITE!"
It's a predicament for those of us that wear more than one hat. As a decorator, it is our job to be privy to what is hip and happenin' in the field, but when it comes to staging a home, we're skilled to what is universally appreciated, valued and accepted.
Top that off, … (10 comments)
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home staging tips: "SPRING" Your Home for the Market - Staging Tips for the Spring RE Market - 02/29/08 08:14 AM
This past Wednesday, Chicago's Brook Furniture hosted a home staging luncheon for Realtors & Stagers showcasing their new line. I partnered with them, and did a short seminar on "Perfectly Packaging Your Home for sale for the Spring '08 Market. While doing preliminarily planning, Brook's Kris Augsburger wanted to include the new Pottery Barn vibrant color palette as a special treat for the attendees. As we all know, "IT"S ALL ABOUT COLOR THIS SPRING!" Every magazine, catalog, both decor and fashion, are filled to the brim w/saturated colors. We just witnessed the red carpet display this past week at the Academy Awards with movie stars soak in … (13 comments)
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home staging tips: In a Pinch with Leechy Labels - Use PAM - 02/16/08 09:00 AM
A new added product to my Interior Redesign/Home Staging "Bag 'o' Tricks" will include a can of PAM cooking spray.
I film monthly this little local cable cooking/entertaining show (which I affectionately call 'The Wayne's World of Cooking Shows,') and was preparing for the shoot yesterday. I had purchased new glassware for the tropical table setting, and was soaking the glasses in the sink - I was going for a whole "Wish I was at an all-inclusive resort in the Caribbean - Instead of Here" look for the show.With 45 minutes till the crew showed up, I was Red Bulling through my kitchen prepping for the show. With … (13 comments)
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home staging tips: Design Intervention - a "Hit List" of Staging Faux Pas UPDATED - 10/27/07 11:01 AM
Upon request, I have added one picture, and am looking for helpful volunteers to assist me in adding the rest.
I know I know I'm going to get it! But I just can't help it - it's in my genome mapping. I fully and totally understand that budget and faunte de mieux -"it's all they had" sometimes defines and drives the work of a home stager, and perhaps, just perhaps I'm not privy to a stager's psychology of these techniques.
But... Here is my "Hit List" of Staging Faux Pas...
Go ahead - Feel free to vent.... Along with me, or at me - … (25 comments)
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home staging tips: Hit a Home Run with Staging - Your Guide to Dramatic Results for Increased Revenue - 10/02/07 03:23 PM
Reprinted from my Home Builder's Assocation's Newsletter - October 2007
Hit a Home Run with Staging - Your Guide to Dramatic Results for Increased Revenue
By Julea Joseph, Interior Stylist - Reinventing Space
"Build it and they will come," was not only the iconic tag-line from the movie Field of Dreams, but has been the quintessential saying for Builders. In the past, a Builder could simply hang a "For Sale" sign outside, and buyers would line-up. Well fast forward to an era of media and consumer overload and today's buyer is bombarded with home product and interior design options by retail, media and the Internet. … (6 comments)
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home staging tips: F.Y.I. Great Little Article on Home Staging - Chicago Tribune - 09/27/07 07:37 AM
In today's Chicago Tribune - "Your Place" section is a great little article about - Setting the "stage" for a quick sale.
Ready for close-up ... You don't have to spend hundreds of dollars to stage your home. But it will take some smarts and some sweat: By Mary Amoroso
http://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/realestate/advice/chi-thu_staging_0927sep27,0,5345554.story
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home staging tips: An Stagers Ode to Great REALTOR Relationships- - 09/19/07 09:19 AM
Partnering and building a good relationship with Realtors is such an important factor in Home Staging business success. The Realtors that I have met and partnered with over the years have been truly a major source to the momentum of my business. Realtors are experts in communication and building affiliations with others; and as the old saying goes "It's all about WHO you know" has truly been a key component to my success.
Our services embrace and celebrate everything "Home." From helping a client package their home for sale, to helping that same client put their personal stamp on their new home - … (5 comments)
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home staging tips: Home Stagers - Put on your Undies & Get Back to Work! - 09/08/07 04:45 PM
A Home Stager is the current TV and Media "IT" Girl/ Darling of the moment. Last summer we were featured as one of the HOT HOT HOT start-up careers in Entrepreneur magazine- htttp://www.entrepreneur.com/startingabusiness/businessideas/article160010-1.html
Red Hot -
...haven't counted lately, but I'd betcha there are at least a dozen Home Staging related TV shows on the networks. Hmmm...Maybe a Home Stager will pop up on "Dancing with the Stars..."
So why so much Whining & Complaining ?
We're Smokin' Hot -
After years and years we don't have to give our elevator speech any longer - PEOPLE GET IT- not perfectly, but they get it … (9 comments)
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home staging tips: Stagers Beware!!! Home Buyers today have ADHD with HGTV & TLC thrown in… - 08/22/07 09:06 AM
Over the years we have all viewed our fair share of let's say "interesting" staging - you know... The great, but empty, high-end home, impressive by its fabulous curb appeal, but when you step inside you're dazed by the obvious "staged" foyer with a wacky tiny plant stand precariously seated beneath a Titan sized mirror. You'd look and say, "Hmm... I guess the plant stand was to depict the missing entry table?" In the past you'd chalk it off to a lack of education on the theory of scale, or a really, really tiny staging budget.
Well fast forward to 2007, … (7 comments)
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home staging tips: Super Summer Home Staging Tips - 07/07/07 10:21 AM
If you're selling your home this summer, here are a few super summer home staging tips.
Exterior Tips -
Exterior color sells! Make sure to have eye-popping annuals added to your landscaping. Whether in container gardens, window boxes or in beds, an array of bright annuals will spotlight up your exterior space, and make your home stand out from the rest. Less is more. Edit and refine your garden accents. We want buyers to concentrate on the home, not the ornaments. Light it up. Add solar or low voltage lighting in the form of walkway, spot, or accent to your landscaping. Showcase your home for … (5 comments)
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Julea Joseph Home Stager, Stylist Chicago Home , Interior Design
Chicago,
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Reinventing Space: Home Staging and Redesign
Address: 12125 S. 90th Avenue, Palos Park, IL, 60464
Office Phone: (708) 448-7500
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